Rajkot: Police have cracked the sensational murder of a local beauty parlour operator at Bapa Sitaram Park on Kalawad Road, arresting two brothers hailing from Agra who lived in her immediate neighbourhood.The victim, identified as Geeta Vajani, was found dead inside her residence on Thursday with fatal sharp-weapon wounds to her neck.Rajkot City Crime Branch…
Palanpur: A special Pocso court in Idar sentenced a 20-year-old man from Aravali district to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping a minor girl and repeatedly raping her at several places in the state. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 and awarded Rs 3.5 lakh in compensation to the victim.The convict,…
Rajkot: A lioness was guided away from a railway track in time after forest trackers and railway personnel acted swiftly when the animal strayed onto the tracks late at night in the Liliya range of Shetrunji forest division.The lioness, which was approaching from the Antaliya side, came onto the track between milestones 28/1 and 28/2,…
Rajkot: Rajkot Rural local crime branch (LCB) cracked two temple burglary cases with the arrest of three members of a Rajasthan-based gang and the recovery of silver artefacts worth nearly Rs 3.78 lakh.The men arrested, Munglaram Angari (35), Shankar Dungsia (40) and Ruparam Bumriya (51), are part of a gang, police said. Two other suspects…
Rajkot: The Special Operations Group (SOG) of Rajkot seized close to 500kg of suspected adulterated ghee during a raid at Volga Ghee Depot on Kevdawadi Main Road under Bhaktinagar police station limits.SOG police inspector N B Chaudhary said the team had received information that trader Keval Chandrani was allegedly mixing soybean oil, vanaspati ghee and…
Rajkot: Vishwagram Trust will organise a special cultural and fashion festival, ‘Bande Mein Hai Dum: Gandhi 158 Not Out!’, in Rajkot as part of celebrations marking Mahatma Gandhi’s 158th birth anniversary. The event will be held at Hemu Gadhvi hall on Saturday and will feature a fashion show themed ‘Khushboo Khadi Ki, Geet Gandhi Ke’…
Rajkot: A govt contractor in Jamnagar has accused a police constable and his three associates of running an illegal moneylending racket, extorting and threatening him and using coercive recovery practices despite him having repaid more than Rs 1 crore against Rs 50 lakh borrowed.Rajkot range IG Nirlipt Rai transferred the probe to Surendranagar police and…
Rajkot: Aji Dam police on Thursday arrested two women for allegedly forcing a 12-year-old girl into prostitution, for four days, after promising her catering work.The arrests came after the girl’s mother, a labourer, 36, who lives in the Punit Nagar area, filed a complaint against Rekha Sagathiya (29) and Alpa alias Bhuri Galchar (43) and…
Rajkot: A 55-year-old woman was found murdered at her residence in Bapa Sitaram Park behind Matuki Restaurant on Kalawad Road on Thursday morning. The victim, Geeta Vaja, had wounds to her face, neck and hands that were inflicted by a bladed weapon.Her husband, Kishor Vaja, 50, lodged a complaint of murder at University police station…
Rajkot: A lion was spotted feeding on a cow near the new campus of Bhakt Kavi Narsinh Mehta University (BKNMU) in Junagadh, raising concern among students and staff. A video of the incident, recorded by students from their classroom windows on Wednesday, went viral on social media.According to sources, the lion had entered the university’s…
